How's Your ATM-GTM-Ball Weight?

The actual Traffic Sergeant who conducted it posts regularly on the Caravaners Forum and there is quite a bit of information on there about it.
Is certainly about time something was done about it and there is also a discussion on whether a licence to tow should be introduced.
Yes fines should be dished out. Two instances come to mind, A Prado towing a 24ft Jayco and he said we have everything in it even a top loader home washing machine. He also had his breakaway attached in a way that it could never work. Another one at Jurien bay that admitted his van went over 3700kg on the back of a 100ser which was chocka and had a tinny plus outboard and fuel on the roof.
Overweight " No she'll be right who cares" About time someone did.
We were beside a woman in Boulder and she had a drive through site with an Avan. I asked why she was paying extra when it would fit on a cheaper site. "Oh I cant reverse a van" She said and have to get someone to do it for me if no drive throughs.
Well I ask you.

Just shows the mentallity of some caravan owners. 60+% overloaded!! Abysmal.

Its a major problem and potentially very expensive for many van owners.

I weighed my ball weight and found it was 300kg instead of 250kg.

Even though the van sits level with HD rear springs, air bags and WDH bars on a 2007 diesel Prado, I am overweight.

I have 2x 4kg gas bottles, chairs and a table under the front bed, an empty 95 litre water tank in front of the single axle and both the AC unit and solar panel mounted on the rear of the van roof.

Question - apart from changing my tug how do I reduce that overweight?

bill

I realise this was an awareness campaign, but were those who were illegally loaded allowed to be on their merry way to wherever they were going - still illegally loaded??
I feel that anyone who was not legal should have had to make alternative arrangements to get their van home to protect other innocent road users(at the very least!)....

The manufactures have a lot to answer here as well

A friend of mine put a deposit on a motorhome with a major supplier (Winnebago & the model was a Burleigh) it was a 6 berth & legal seating for 6 but was only 90kg off its max weight with No people, no water, no gas, No diesel, NO food etc. etc. & they were quite happy to sell it to him on a std licence the 1st time he would have used it. It would have been illegal, lucky he asked me to check the specs as he wanted to fit a alloy bull bar & a bike rack & they told him they could not fit them until after rego or it would not pass or he could get it passed as a truck with a LR or MR licence

This model van is rented out all the time to travellers & again the moment it leaves the yard it would be illegal & the hire company's must know there illegal & I bet most of the drivers do not have a LR licence

The idea that roadside inspections of caravans is a myth could not be further from the truth ...... same with roadside inspections of modified 4wds.

QLD police and QLD transport have run a number of very high profile operations over the years.

Back before pretty much uniform towing regulations, there where a couple of operations just north of the QLD NSW border that had north traveling caravanners in peak season turned around by the score, because they did not comply with QLD regs.

There have been a number of stop everything inspections near the Whitsunday turnoff over the years.

There was an operation at Tewantin a year or so back, targeting 4wds comming off the beach after a long week end ....... lots of 4wds parked up and had to be trailered or towed.

A number of well know traffic operations near Landcruiser Mountain park.

QLD poilce and transport conduct regular roadside inspections all over the state and have the ability to weigh by the road side on any hard flat surface and have the staff and mobile facilities to inspect pretty much anything .... and do.

With people traveling such long distances ....... what ya gona doo if ya rig is given a pink ticket and declared unsafe to travel 1500Km from home. ....... the $$ thousands in fines will be a minor detail.

If the government sees a funds raising opportunity here ..... with 60% of rigs overweight ...... it could be on for young and old.

SO .... are you feelin' lucky .... well are you.

cheers